Opel plant in Eisenach
70 employees of the Opel plant in Eisenach had concluded termination agreements, but these were blocked by the works council.
The carmaker Opel has suspended its severance pay program for younger workers according to works council information for the time being. The company has committed itself to 28/29. It is said in an IG-Metall circular distributed to employees on Wednesday that it will no longer be able to conclude or approve new termination agreements.
In return, the works council will agree to the termination agreements that have already been concluded with a cut-off date up to and including 31 May. Their number was initially unclear. The company initially did not comment.
Between OpelManagement and workers have a great deal of disagreement about the extent of the various severance packages. The for renovation under the direction of the new parent company PSA needed staff reductions can only be achieved with early retirement and partial retirement, argue works council and IG Metall,
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They assume that at least 3700 of the still around 18,000 Opel employees in Germany leave the company in this way. This also corresponds to the planned figures of the management presented at the conciliation office. In addition, when people left, staff shortages and increased use of temporary workers threatened.
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But Opel has launched an additional redundancy program, which is also aimed at younger employees and for which there are already around 1000 applicants according to the company. Depending on length of service, the base amount can reach in individual cases up to 275,000 euros. For this purpose, so-called “speed bonuses” were issued with a deadline of 23 May.
The works council requiring approval had blocked first termination agreementswho had, for example, completed 70 employees from the Eisenach assembly plant. You can now leave the company together with other employees.
Also, the Opel personnel department may continue to advise compensation parties. Further action will be discussed at the next meeting of the arbitration board from 28 May. With the compromise, legal disputes were avoided, it says in the leaflet.
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